Debt markets news and analysis
Covered bonds: Shinsei plans a first for Japan
Crunch wakes US to CDS e-trading
Towards a common definition of hybrid capital
Debt market round up: Neal Neilinger joins Calyon
Debt market round up: Central counterparty for credit derivatives
Debt market round up: Barcap credit chief heads out
Structured finance news and analysis
Monoline insurance: Fitch triggers meltdown
Mortgages: Lehman battens down the hatches
Structured finance market round up: Medcraft resigns from SG
Structured finance market round up: Fitch tightens Knot
Foreign exchange news
Trading: It’s EBS, but not as we know it
Regulation: An uneven regulatory playing field
FX market round up: Cognotec partners with Saxo
FX market round up: New platform for Brazil
Equity markets news
Regulation: SEC embraces globalization
Equity derivatives: London turns its attention to CFDs
Equity capital markets: Holding on to hope
Equity market round up: Going up
Equity market round up: Going down
Alternative investments news
Prime brokerage costs up but who cares?
Blackstone wins coveted bid for GSO
Fund flows: Record $195 billion flows in during 2007
Funds of hedge funds: Fofs cut new managers
AI profile: Arch bridges a gap
Alternative investments market round up: Greenspan joins Paulson & Co
Alternative investments market round up: FRM moves into hedge fund seeding
Alternative investments market round up: Fund start-ups increasing
Asia news
China Investment Corporation (CIC): Too early to fear China’s sovereign wealth fund
Japan: Mizuho leads as megabanks look overseas
Mongolia: Ulan Bator makes it on to hedge fund map
Afghanistan: Afghan central bank numbers crunched by Indian accountant
Asia market round up: Best in Japan 2007
Asia market round up: Nikkei shrinks in Japan
Latin America news
Banking: Is Redecard sale the first of many for Citi?
Banking: European banks go direct to São Paulo
Argentina: Debt restructuring holdouts happy to wait
Fund management: Foreigners pick off Brazilian asset managers
Brazil: Tax hike hits stock prices
Chávez Watch: president threatens to nationalize cows
Latin American market round up: Icap buys stake in Chilean exchange
Latin American market round up: Private equity shop closes $140 million LatAm fund
EEMEA news
Structured finance: Securitization still a challenge
Sudan: Middle East turns bullish on Sudan
Turkey: Strong start to 2008 allays funding fears
Equity capital markets: Equities to remain an attractive option
Power finance: South Africa stays bullish on structured finance
Debt Capital Markets: Mixed outlook for central and eastern European issuers
EEMEA market round up: Goldman chases Ukraine dragon
EEMEA market round up: Russian banks go Chinese
EEMEA market round up: Bear Stearns in Islamic deal?
Market leaders
There has to be a better way than this
The last resort: Offloading emerging markets businesses
The Rock is not an island
Why UBS needs Marcel Ospel – for now
Time for the sukuk to seize its chance
Korea Investment Corp: Korea joins the sovereign wealth fund adventurers
Online extra: The time for TAFs
How not to stop a Rock rolling